Re: FLASH: Library management and Flash quirks

[alexb]

Next time you need to split a movie up, think backwards. I've had to do

this on several occasions with lengthy animations. Believe me, the easiest

way to do it is to copy the entire .FLA, then go in and delete the scenes

not needed from each movie. This will avoid your messed up Library problem.

It may leave you with a whole bunch of unused symbols in the Library, but

at least they'll all be organized, and if you've organized them according

to category, you'll know which ones can be deleted safely.

alex



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>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:49:48 -0700

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From: ifxjps [dot] net

>Subject: FLASH: Library management and Flash quirks

>

>Hi everyone,

>

>Here's a subject that I've never seen any comments on. I just finished a

>project that had over 500 different graphics, symbols and buttons. I put

>each category into it's own folder so that I'd have an easier time finding

>it later. Anyway, one thing I noticed was that the "select unused" command

>in the library didn't accurately find the unused graphics. I had a small

>bitmapped image that I deleted out of a button and it wasn't use anywhere

>else in the movie, yet it wasn't selected when I did the "select unused".

So

>I'm left with manually watching to delete files that wind up not getting

>utilized in the movie. Another thing that happened that really bugged me,

>was that the client decided they wanted the movie setup into two separate

>movies.. instead of just the one. So I split the FLA by copy and paste

>frames into a new movie. It worked great.. but when I went to the library

>all of the graphics had been brought over without the folders. So I had a

>little over 300 graphics that were just a jumbled mess in the library. I

>like to keep things organized so it really pissed me off that I had to

spend

>a half hour dragging and dropping everything one at a time into their

>respective folders. It wouldn't have been so bad, but you can't shift

select

>anything that isn't in a line or it selects the whole row. I'm wondering

it

>a better file management system is something that people would like to see

>in future versions. Maybe a hierarchical system with search capabilities?

>Wouldn't it be nice to highlight a symbol and it would show a listing of

all

>places it's being used in the movie? I could go on... but you get the

idea.

>

>Alan

>

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